CrazyBernie is giving away the (indie) farm!!

[CrazyBernie]

After spending close to 18 months being out of work, I'm happy to report that I'm once again slaving away for a paycheck!!

With my newfound wealth (yeah right), I ended up purchasing a slew of gift codes for some excellent indie games (and car parts, and computer parts, and food parts, and gifts for family parts...). It started out innocently enough...

"Let's see, I could buy this copy of Left 4 Dead 2 for myself @ $29.99, or I could get six copies for the same price!"

Then: "Hmm... $19.99 for one copy of Trine, or $24.99 for eight copies!"

After I bought a 12-pack of World of Goo, I had to stop and try to figure out who I was giving all of these gift copies of games to. After all, I don't really have a lot of (gamer) friends... 0_o Then came to me.... what if I have a Holiday give-away for this bunch of indie games? Of course after I pondered that the Humble Indie Bundle #2 hit the "streets," and Notch announced gift codes for the Alpha version of Minecraft were available...

So here we (er I) stand (sit, really), with Gift codes for World of Goo, Trine, Minecraft, and The Humble Bundle #2, and I'm looking to gift them to some (possibly) less fortunate (than me?) people. BW has agreed to let me host the give-away here on the forums, and I've sent a flurry of emails to developers to cover my legal behind. I'm still hashing out the details, but I intend to pull this off over a 5-ish day period between Christmas and New Years. This is only a semi-official announcement, as the real thing will have some fancy disclaimer speak posted all over. There'll be a combination of random selection and participation involved, and anyone who's signed up on this forum can have a chance to get in on the indie goodness that is contained within! Additionally, there may be an extra, secret prize that will sneak its way into this "Bernie-Is-Crazy-But-I-Want-In-On-Those-Goods" gift-a-thon. Stay tuned!!

Please keep in mind that acceptance of any of these "gifts" will require some sort of valid email address, as some of them are Steam Gift Codes and require a valid Steam Account (or creation of one) to play. As I stated previously, this give-away is open to all registered forum members so all anyone needs to do is sign up and be prepared to post! Look forward to more disclaimer speak in the future, along with an "Official" announcement (Or maybe just the start of the give-away, whichever comes first 0_o)!

[BasiliskWrangler]

This is only a semi-official announcement...

Sounds cool, CB! let me know when you are ready to make this official and I will send make some posts on our Twitter and Facebook pages.

[AK_Marty]

Sounds like fun, let the merriment commence!!

[CrazyBernie]

Hope everyone had a great Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate)!

Just an update on my holiday giveaway:

It's been delayed a little bit... I was planning on starting it tomorrow... I would have posted all of the details today and tomorrow would have been the first day for "submissions." Well, I've been a bit under the weather. I went to the emergency room on Friday (what a great Christmas Eve!! 0_o) for some extreme tooth pains. They gave me anti-biotics and anti-inflammatories to tide me over until I can get to a dentist to get some drilling/pulling/face smashing/etc. So on top of all of the holiday festivities I've gotten to be all miserable. Luckily for family, me being miserable isn't a horrible experience, and usually just involves more wisecracking than usual.

But fear not; there will be much giving away of indie goodness. I'll try to get things rolling tomorrow so the fun can start on Tuesday and bring in the new year with some pizazz! After all, how often do people get gifts *after* Christmas??

Now if it's all the same to you, I'm going to get some more recovering done by playing some Fallout: New Vegas.

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Feel better, Bernie, and whatever you do, don't watch Marathon Man.

[Painted Lady]

Feel better, Bernie, and whatever you do, don't watch Marathon Man.

We have a friend who is a dentist, and he said that movie set dentistry back 50 years.

[CrazyBernie]

You dare compare a single scene with an entire movie?? That has a sequel??

[Kreador Freeaxe]

You dare compare a single scene with an entire movie?? That has a sequel??

Except those movies made me laugh. Steve Martin as the masochist dentist in Little Shop of Horrors is fun, too.

And, congratulations on being Major Bernie, now.

[xolotl]

Ah, way cool! Congrats on the job; must be a great xmas present.

[Dragonlady]

And, congratulations on being Major Bernie, now.

Yes, congratulations. Cool Major symbol. Be a little while till I get mine.

[CrazyBernie]

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. 0_o